Monday, May 28, 2012

Sunday B and B Blogging

From Capitol Hill, Seattle

We've kept pretty busy on our trip to Seattle. On our second night, after a day of hiking, shopping, and reminiscing, I dragged CoolMom to a show right around the corner from where we're staying. With the Sasquatch! Festival going on relatively close by, the pickings in Seattle are pretty slim for music this weekend, but we were able to catch local musician Erik Blood and neo-shoegazers Mahogany at the Comet Tavern.

Opener Erik Blood, a charismatic frontman, did a great set of distortion-heavy pop.  Mahogany headlined and didn't go on until about 12:30. I'm sorry to report that CoolMom just wasn't up to staying for the entire set, but what we saw was very good and about as noisy as I could have hoped.  It was mighty big of CoolMom to stick it out for me as long as she did.




I think the highlight of the trip for me so far has been the Experience Music Project Museum near the Seattle Center. Founded by Paul Allen, the museum focuses on popular music and science fiction. Today, I saw a fragment of the guitar that Jimi Hendrix burned on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival, several of Kurt Cobain's guitars, letters to friends and fans from Nirvana's early days, and some drawings Cobain did when he must have been about sixteen or seventeen years old. I saw a 19th century Gibson acoustic guitar and the guitar that J Mascis used on Dinosaur Jr.'s late-80's albums. An AC/DC exhibit had examples of Angus Young's SG and schoolboy outfit. The exhibit on horror movies contained Buffy's "Mr. Pointy" stake, an original script for Night of the Living Dead, and the alien "mother" from the Alien films.

Many of the exhibits were interactive. There were three or four "jam rooms" where several people could jam together for ten-minute stretches. A scream booth snapped a picture of you screaming for posting on the wall of the horror exhibit.

CoolMom loved the museum (and, surprisingly, yesterday's Mariners game) as much as I did. We still have a lot in common, but our night at the Comet showed me how different we've grown from each other over the years. It's nice to know, on our anniversary weekend, that even though we're two totally different people than when we met, we still make it work so well.

P.S., The 11th Avenue Inn is a great B and B on Capitol Hill, very close to downtown. The proprietor, David, knows the area well and is just a nice guy.

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